November 16, 2025
Beulah UMC & Oak Grove UMC
Loving Creator God, today we especially pray for our world where there is so much brokenness, pain, suffering, hunger, and despair. When we are tempted to look the other way and pretend that it’s not there, prompt us to not only pray for those in need but to also do what we can do to help make our communities and our world a better place. Hear our prayers for all who are suffering and the many people who feel unseen and unheard.
Even as we live in this world filled with so much heartache and pain, we also pray that you would open our eyes to also see glimpses of your kingdom here on earth. Open our eyes to see what could be, what should be, and what ought to be. And as our II Thessalonians scripture reading has reminded us this morning, let us not be weary in doing good.
Open our eyes to see those glimpses of your presence through the peaceful blue water of the Caribbean Sea as well as the loud and crashing waves of the Atlantic Ocean. Teach is what it means to live in both of these worlds at the same time. Teach us to see the world as you see it, as a world that you are seeking to renew and redeem.
Even now, we lift up to you those on our church’s prayer list as well as others who are on our hearts and minds this day. Bless each of these persons and situations with your healing, guiding, comforting and protecting presence.
And whenever we grow weary in living in these two worlds of so much heartache and suffering and yet so much joy and beauty, remind us to keep praying for your kingdom to come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.
Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil. For thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever. Amen.
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